Gary Robinson's RantsRants on spam, business, digital music, patents, and other assorted random stuff.(Untitled)- October 3, 2003 CNet reviews "pay-to-play" music services. iTunes Music Store comes out on top, for now.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2003/10/03.html#a543 (Untitled)- October 2, 2003 If you're interested in the evolution of digital music distribution, don't miss this Wired article about Mercora, which is founded by McAfee CEO Srivats Sampath out of personal funds. I think that Mercora is a step in the right direction, but its proprietary nature will be a problem for it. A better alternative would be something like Mercora that could work with various digital music stores and with free content as well.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2003/10/02.html#a542 (Untitled)- October 2, 2003 Ray Ozzie thinks email is going away: Think about it.&160; Think about the rate of increase of "noise" in email over the past two years, which is a very short time.&160; Think about where we'll be in as short as five years.&160; Can you imagine Right now, every major enterprise has a "content-scanning gateway" that processes every incoming email, looking for Dangerous Stuff.&160; Many individuals do the same thing on their own computers.&160; Some enterprises are beginning to&160;quarantine..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2003/10/02.html#a541 (Untitled)- October 1, 2003 "McAfee founder joins chorus of music sellers": With a pitch that evokes the heady days of 1999, a digital music start-up is planning to launch a distribution service next month, inspired in equal parts by iTunes, Friendster and eBay... the newcomer is putting a twist on digital music sales, hoping to spur the creation of like-minded, music-loving minicommunities that can help sell new bands and artists to each other. News.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2003/10/01.html#a540 (Untitled)- October 1, 2003 "Lawsuits Damp Down P2P Audience": LOS ANGELES -- Lawsuits launched against individuals for illegal file-sharing appear to have tempered activity on the more popular peer-to-peer networks, new U.S. research released this week shows. NielsenNetRatings, which tracks Internet usage, said on Tuesday it found a 41 percent drop over the last three months in the audience for Kazaa, the leading music file-sharing service. Wired.com I have long felt that the most likely path of evolution for the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2003/10/01.html#a539 |